U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley says he has doubts about whether President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen could implicate the president in any wrongdoing, given what Grassley said is Cohen's inability to tell the truth.

Cohen has also acknowledged lying to Congress about a Moscow real estate deal he pursued on Trump's behalf during the 2016 presidential campaign, and to evading more than $1.4 million in taxes.

Grassley, an Iowa Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, was asked Wednesday during a conference call with Iowa reporters if he cared about Cohen's sentencing and the lawyer's statements that appeared to implicate Trump in some crimes.

"So that is how I see this thing evolving. But so far all I know is what the prosecutor said, and the prosecution was relying upon the information given to him by a person (Cohen) who lied to Congress. So how much credit do you put in somebody lying?" Grassley said.

Grassley was then asked if he was suggesting that Cohen was unjustly charged by the prosecution and he said, "No."

"Let's make it very clear what the prosecutor did is based upon what Cohen said and pleaded to, but on the other hand, the prosecutor's information comes from a person that lied to Congress," Grassley said. "To what extent do you want to put confidence in what a liar said? It is fair to say that I can't speak to the evidence that the prosecutor might have. I don't have that information."

Asked if Cohen could still be lying, Grassley remarked, "Well, he could be. But the prosecutor got a prosecution. So you have got to go by the rule of law and the process of applying the law."

Cohen, known as Trump’s fixer in legal and business matters, is the first member of the president’s inner circle to be sentenced to prison in a case with potential legal implications for the president.

Lanny Davis, a lawyer representing Cohen, has said Cohen continues to tell the truth about Trump’s misconduct. Manhattan U.S. District Court Judge William Pauley walked through each of the counts against Cohen during Wednesday's sentencing, saying "each of these crimes is a serious offense against the United States."

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